[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Most of the empresses and concubines in the Ming Dynasty came from poor families. Zhu Houzhao married the empress after becoming the emperor. The grand etiquette is naturally different from the weddings of those who first became the crown prince and then the concubine and then canonized as empress.Most of Zhu Houzhao's marriages cannot be decided by him. The emperor's marriage is the result of a game between several parties. With so many people watching, Zhu Houzhao can probably know what this woman looks like.

This woman must have come from a poor and educated family. She is knowledgeable about books and etiquette, has a good appearance and is dignified.He is a moral model in this world. As long as he thinks that he is going to marry a queen, Zhu Houzhao will almost die of worry.There is Du Ruo standing next to him, and he is about to talk about getting married, so don't you think his life is too long?

"Mother, my child is new to the position, and his heart is all about state affairs. How can he have the heart to get married. Let me wait until I am older." Zhu Houzhao looked at Du Ruo staring directly into his eyes, feeling trembling in his heart, and hurriedly Get rid of.This matter is absolutely unacceptable, but I am about to reach the age when the ancients should start a family and start a business, so I have to think of a safe way how to shirk these things.

The son is getting bigger and bigger, and he is so much taller than himself inadvertently, and he has reached the age of marrying a wife. For a moment, Zhang feels that time flies. "I didn't ask you to marry one right away, it's just that your identity is different from others. Your father and I can't be the masters of your marriage, you have to think about it yourself." After speaking, he gestured twice and sighed He said: "You were only this big when you were just born, and now you are taller than me. When your brother met him, you were only this tall, Xiao Douding, but now he is going to get married. It's too late to pass the time."

What she said aroused Zhu Houzhao's melancholy. When she was just born, Zhang Shi and Zhu Youtang were still two children under 20 years old, and now they are old.And my memory about that world is almost forgotten, even the faces of those former classmates and friends have been blurred, I don't know if I can recognize them standing in front of me.

"You see, I've just chatted with you here, and the business has not been resolved yet. You should think about it, Xiao Ruo. You are different from Ah Zhao. His future queen must be the daughter of a poor family. You really want to marry a big family The daughter of your son-in-law is in charge of your Duke's mansion. You are a successful young man, and they must be satisfied with you as a son-in-law, but you have to choose carefully. The appearance of the family is second, and the first is to look at the character and ability .Otherwise, there is no one in your family who can do it.”

It was Du Ruo who was eating Zhu Houzhao's jealousy just now, but now Zhu Houzhao is eating Du Ruo's jealousy again.Du Ruo saw that Zhu Houzhao's right hand made a one-size-fits-all movement, and suddenly felt that the ball was cold and panicked. "I'm still young, and I have no achievements at all. How can I marry a girl and let her suffer with me."

"But you are too self-deprecating. Look at the civil and military affairs of the whole dynasty, which one can match you at your age." Zhang joked reproachfully: "Don't say it's them, don't tell me I'm alone?" Don’t want to give it to you? It’s just that there is no one. The Zhang family has two daughters, but their age is not good enough for you. As for the girls in the clan, I’m not saying that none of them are good enough for you. You can give it to someone, but you have to take good care of it, and you must choose a satisfactory god-daughter-in-law for you."

Du Ruo saw that Zhu Houzhao was holding the pen tightly, feeling as if he wanted to crush himself, and said with a wry smile: "I have a crush on a girl, but she is not suitable for marriage yet, I am just waiting for him It's just growing up." This was also pushed by Zhang Shi, if Zhang Shi knew that he had a crush on her son, would he give his legs a discount?

This kind of situation is not what Mrs. Zhang could have imagined, and she was afraid that Du Ruo would do something inappropriate to hurt his reputation, so she hurriedly persuaded her: "I don't know which girl you are talking about? I don't think I know you. You are young and inexperienced, so you can go and don't do stupid things."

Seeing that the two of them were chatting happily there, especially Du Ruo, who didn't even blink his eyes when he lied, Zhu Houzhao made fun of him and said, "Mother, you know each other, but he is not willing to marry him yet. He can do it on his own wishful thinking." What's up."

As the two sang together, Mrs. Zhang couldn't think of the tricky relationship between the two of them, and asked suspiciously: "Which family's daughter is she, who is so outstanding that she even hooked our Xiao Ruo's soul? That's all I know. A few little girls, could it be that I only met that girl once? Well, it’s good for you two brothers to know. We are both decent people, and we can’t do those dirty things. If we think about it, Xiao Ruoke must tell Me, your godfather and I arranged for someone to propose marriage for you."

"It's too early for people to agree to propose marriage!" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.Mrs. Zhang saw that he was depressed for so many days and finally smiled. She didn't criticize him too much. She smiled and said that she still had to make medicine for Zhu Youtang and left. Before leaving, she asked Du Ruo many times to tell herself if she had news , Du Ruo got a few provocative rolls of eyes from Zhu Houzhao again.

Mrs. Zhang left the house, and Liu Jin sent someone out before returning. Zhu Houzhao and the others both heaved a sigh of relief and smiled at each other.

Liu Jin knew that these two masters were not happy that she was disturbing them in front of others, so she still guarded her door by the stove at the door, reading her book.As for the two young masters, they can do what they want, and they don't need to take care of themselves.Thinking of what Mrs. Zhang said just now, Liu Jin lamented that she didn't know when it was time to get married, the two of them didn't know what would happen, they were so gluey, and how they would be separated at that time.

After a tacit smile here, Zhu Houzhao ignored Du Ruo.Du Ruo saw him writing there sullenly, and tentatively said: "I don't know if this beautiful lady is willing to marry me?"

Zhu Houzhao raised his head, put down the pen and said with a "hum" laugh: "Didn't you fall in love with a beautiful woman who can't be abrupt, why are you pestering me again?" Beside her, she said cautiously: "Isn't the most handsome and precious person in the world right in front of me, how can there be any beauties. Compared with you, how can they be considered beauties?"

Pushing Du Ruo's hand away, Zhu Hou imitated Zhang's tone, deliberately raised his voice and said: "We are all decent people, we can't do dirty things."

Knowing that he was angry at himself for comparing him to a woman, Du Ruo carefully hugged Zhu Houzhao from behind, and whispered in his ear: "I'm sorry. Neither of us is married. It's good for the two of us to be 'bachelor' for the rest of our lives. In the future How about doing things together and growing old together?" With tenderness, the kiss that was interrupted by Zhang Shi finally fell on Zhu Houzhao's lips.Liu Jin was thinking about why there was no sound suddenly, so he poked his head and saw that the two were kissing there. He was so frightened that he quickly covered his face with a book, and said silently: "If you don't see it, you are pure, if you don't see it, you are pure."

Time passes by in a flash, and the new year must have a new atmosphere.Many people in the palace can no longer use it.Luckily, the father-in-laws were sent directly by Zhu Houzhao to repair the imperial mausoleum, but the maids could not lift their shoulders or lift their hands, which was difficult to deal with.

It just so happened that Ma Wensheng was playing, and it is not easy for military households to start a family. It is hoped that many official media will be set up to serve these military households.After becoming a military household, unless there are extremely special circumstances, you will be a military household, but any family with a little wealth is not willing to marry their daughter to a military household.Now that there are so many maids in the palace who have nowhere to go, Zhu Houzhao simply thought of allocating them to the military households guarding the border.

Although they can't do much because they have lived in the deep palace for a long time, there is still more than a year before the army returns to Beijing.This time is enough to train these delicate daughters into qualified peasant women, so Zhu Houzhao sent these people to Huangzhuang to learn how to farm and farm.I don't want to be proficient, I just want to be able to let go of my hands and feet and strengthen my body bones.

If you fail to pass the time, don't even think about getting married, it's better to become a military prostitute directly.After all, people marry a wife to help the family, not to marry a burden to go home.With such motivation, those women are of course willing to go all out, and they no longer look sickly as usual.Especially after throwing a few thorns directly into the barracks, everyone was even more submissive, not daring to make any mistakes.

After dismissing half of the palace people, Mrs. Zhang began to think about entering the palace.But Zhu Houzhao stopped her.In Zhu Houzhao's view, the current imperial palace is not just these few masters, one wormwood and one Zhu Houwei will still be separated sooner or later, and he is not going to get married, so there will be fewer people in the palace by then, so why should there be so many people.

You must know that it takes a lot of money to feed the people in this palace, and it's not just such a simple matter that can be solved by just managing the food.Zhu Houzhao had already agreed with Zhang that he would not marry for the time being. One was that he was too young, but there was no reason for a son whose father was ill to marry. After all, Zhang was persuaded by him.

March [-]rd is Zhu Houzhao's enthronement ceremony. From the beginning of February, the entire palace began to register the things of each palace.Anyway, no one lived in these palaces, so Zhu Houzhao simply sorted out the things of some remote palaces and made a list, and then sealed them up after the enthronement ceremony after simple reinforcement, which can save a lot of manpower.It only needs to be repaired for a while every year, and even the loss of those daily utensils is avoided.

There are only a few palaces where the surviving concubines live and the queen mother's palace remains the same.Others are only Qingning Palace, Kunning Palace, Weiyang Palace, and Ciqing Palace.The ministers did not expect Zhu Houzhao to be able to achieve this level. Some wrote to praise Zhu Houzhao for being considerate of the people, and some wrote to say that what Zhu Houzhao said was detrimental to the majesty of the royal family.But in general, after all, there are more people who praise Zhu Houzhao.You must know that in this way, you can save a huge amount of silver of 200 million yuan.Thousands of bachelors were missing from the army.

Compared with Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, who was forced to become the Supreme Emperor after the Tumubao Incident, the father and son Zhu Youtang and Zhu Houzhao appeared more affectionate in the enthronement hall, and the ceremony was more festive.And this is also the first abdication ceremony since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.In this way, everyone was busy from the beginning of the new year to the third day of March. In a festive atmosphere that was different from other emperors when they ascended the throne, Zhu Houzhao finally held a grand enthronement ceremony on the Tiananmen Tower and became a generation of emperors.

The first thing Zhu Houzhao did after he ascended the throne was to take back the country of Manga, which was occupied by the Portuguese.